On the 28th of June, Parker drew up his ships before Fort Moultrie in the harbor.

He had expected simultaneous aid by land from three thousand soldiers put ashore from the fleet on a sandbar, but these troops could give him no help against the fort from which they were cut off by a channel of deep water.

A battle soon proved the British ships unable to withstand the American fire from Fort Moultrie.

Late in the evening Parker drew off, with two hundred and twenty-five casualties against an American loss of thirty-seven.

The check was greater than that of Bunker Hill, for there the British took the ground which they attacked.